Washington taking lessons from 'Boys in the Boat' into the CFP semifinal
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The Washington Huskies are applying lessons from Olympic rowing in 1936 to their quest for a college football national title at the dawn of 2024
What does Olympic rowing in 1936 have to do with the College Football Playoff at the dawn of 2024?
Plenty, if you play for the second-seeded Washington Huskies.
Shortly before departing Seattle for a Sugar Bowl semifinal matchup against Texas, Huskies coach Kalen DeBoer took the team to the movies. They watched “The Boys in the Boat,” which recounts how an underdog, eight-man crew from the University of Washington wound up representing the United States at the Berlin Games, where they beat the Nazis and won gold.
Washington tight end Jack Westover not only grew up a Huskies fan, but also attended regattas at Lake Washington — which anyone who’s watched a UW football game on TV has seen because the stadium was built along the shoreline, next to the university’s boathouse.
The film, directed by George Clooney, recounts "a big part of Huskie history,” Westover said Thursday.
